Toy motor boat



March 15 1927' P. E. YOUNG TOY MOTOR BOAT 7 Filed Aug. 26 1925 M61 E MWm w m f i vwm. P

Patented Mar. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP E. YOUNG, OF FAIBI-IAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 AGUSHNETPROC- ESS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY MOTOR BOAT.

Application filed August 26, 1926.

The present invention relates to a toy motor boat, in which anadjustable connection 1s provided between the driving mechanism and therudder, so that the boat can be made to take various courses while underway.

An illustrative example of my invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of a boat embody ing thedevice, with a part broken away; and Fig. 2 is a plan view; Figs. 3, 1and 5 are diagrammatic illustrations of various courses that the boatmay be designed to take.

In the drawings, 10 is a conventional indication of a spring motor whichdrives the shaft 12 and the propeller 14. The motor 10 may be attachedto the hull 16 in any desired way as by the flanges 18 to which theupper plate of the motor is screwed.

One of the slowly rotating shafts of the motor extends upwardly abovethe plate 20. In the present illustration indicated by the numeral 22 isthe shaft to which the spring 2% is attached. Rudder 26 has a tiller 30to which is pivotally connected a steering rod 28. The tiller 30 ispreferably set at right angles to the plane of the rudder 26 so thatlongitudinal movement of the steering rod 28 will turn the rudder.Attached to the top of shaft 22 is a cross bar 32 which will serve towind the motor and also is provided with. a series of holes 34: adaptedto receive the hooked end 36 of the steering rod 28. One of theholes 3 1is made concentric with the shaft 22, while the other holes are arrangedextending out toward one end of bar 32.

The steering rod 28 should be of such length that when the hook 236 isin the inner opening 34, rudder 26 will extend straight back and theboat will hold a straight course. By properly designing the speed of theboat to the speed with which shaft 22 rotates (and the size andefficiency of the rudder must also be taken into consideration) it ispossible to arrange that when the hook 36 is in the next to the centeropening 34, the boat will take a serpentine course as illustrated inFig. 3.

Serial No. 181,618.

When the book 36 is moved out to the next opening (or in the positionshown in Fig. 2)

the boat can be caused to take a course in the shape of a figure 8 asillustrated in Fig 4.

By this arrangement, the boat can be used for different sized bodies ofwater; it can be made to go straight across a small pond, backward andforward; can be made to zigzag up a stream, or it can be made to turnfigure sights of greater or less length in smaller bodies of water.

It is to be understood that the motor illustrated is intended as aconventional representation and that various forms of spring motors maybe used; also the proportioning of the parts may be varied so thatdifferent courses will be steered, according to the position at whichthe hooked end of the steering rod is placed, but it is to be noted thatin all cases, except where the boat is set to follow a straight course,that the course is one which. is continually changing and the ruddersuccessively alternates from the port to the starboard side.

What I claim is: i

1. In a toy motor boat, the combination of a spring motor, a propellerdriven thereby. a member rotated relatively slowly by said spring motorand provided with an axial opening and with non-axial openings, arudder, a tiller at an angle thereto, and a steer-- ing rod pivoted tothe tiller provided with a portion adapted to be placed in any one ofsaid openings, whereby the boat may be caused either to follow astraight course or to follow various courses which are substantiallycontinuously curving and successively reversing.

2. A structure as defined in claim 1, in which the member provided withsaid openings is adapted to be used to wind up the spring motor.

PHILIP E. YOUNG.

